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25 thoughts on “Help Me Save the U.S. Taxpayers $20,000,000,000”
(Laughing incredibly!) Oh, that is a good one! I am going to have to share this with all of my friends!
Thanks, Tiff!
Funny thing is it’s been the truth for SO long! Cannot imagine what I would do with even HALF the money the schools would get for teaching my kids! Let’s see, six kids, at $10,000 per year, halved would be, umm, $30,000, right? 😆
Maybe we should make them a deal?
I would bet that if the government would reimbursement just a small percentage to individual families we would have more family time, and well educated children, and a better budget in America.
LOL!! I guess I’m saving them alot because I home school four kids! Thats $130,000 x4!! If only we can get some of that back! Wouldn’t that be a nice incentive!
Half of that would be 260,000. Is that right? Wow. If they could just pay us HALF what it costs them, I’d be happy and they ought to be, too. They’d have to make it outcomes-based, though, I think, which would penalize those whose kids are disabled, I suppose. Still . . .
You know, it would be a gamble, but THINK how many moms might begin thinking they could afford to stay home . . . and how much money the schools could save . . . and taxpayers.
Huh.
Lobby, yes. think how many additional schools they would NOT have to burden taxpayers with building…fewer bond issues, lower school taxes. Less crowded classrooms….all good things. the best would be children at home being taught by their parent(s).
It’s a sad thing that some teachers in this country ARE being bullied by their students. It’s a growing problem. Teachers get blamed for all the woes in education. We don’t blame dentists when we get cavities, but we blame teachers when kids refuse to try to learn, can’t focus on their math because their parents divorced, etc. PARENTS need to reclaim responsibility for their children. Sadly, many won’t do that, let alone homeschool.
This whole post and most of the replies are a soapbox, this time ’round, Leah, and you are welcome to climb on up here with us! 😆
I have always known that some adults are called into the various public systems, as a mission, as a calling from God. I do not see the teacher’s roll, in that case, as furthering a wicked agenda, but as infiltrating, to do as much good as possible, to encourage the kids who are trying, to prod those who are not.
I never forget it was a teacher who stepped in front of a child in Jonesboro, and died taking a bullet.
From a bully.
I am so very amused! Yes – absolutely true! We are doing our part to manage the national deficit!! I wanted to like this post but for some reason the like button isn’t showing up so I will just have to settle for commenting…
Yes, I had to remove “like” buttons due to some horrific spam likers. Sorry. However, I am so glad you enjoyed this post, and WELCOME to Home’s Cool! 🙂 Many thanks for stopping by!
Yep, we do the best we can, which is more than I can say of some.
Thanks for your kind words, here, and I hope you visit again, soon!
Home's Cool! 
(Laughing incredibly!) Oh, that is a good one! I am going to have to share this with all of my friends!
PLEASE DO! (And link back? 😉 )
Thanks for your kind words, here, and glad you stopped by again and had a good time! 🙂
Dang. That is awesome.
Thanks, Tiff!
Funny thing is it’s been the truth for SO long! Cannot imagine what I would do with even HALF the money the schools would get for teaching my kids! Let’s see, six kids, at $10,000 per year, halved would be, umm, $30,000, right? 😆
Maybe we should make them a deal?
Nice.
Thanks, Tiff! 😉
I would bet that if the government would reimbursement just a small percentage to individual families we would have more family time, and well educated children, and a better budget in America.
Ah — but there’s always free cheese in a mouse trap, we fear . . .
Funny how our legislature hasn’t always appreciated how we’ve saved so much money. 😉
AMEN! Also odd how the school officials cannot do the math about how they get more per child if we drop out . . . Sighs!!!!
LOL!! I guess I’m saving them alot because I home school four kids! Thats $130,000 x4!! If only we can get some of that back! Wouldn’t that be a nice incentive!
Half of that would be 260,000. Is that right? Wow. If they could just pay us HALF what it costs them, I’d be happy and they ought to be, too. They’d have to make it outcomes-based, though, I think, which would penalize those whose kids are disabled, I suppose. Still . . .
You know, it would be a gamble, but THINK how many moms might begin thinking they could afford to stay home . . . and how much money the schools could save . . . and taxpayers.
Huh.
Yes there would be alot of homeschool moms if that were the case! Oh we can dream!! LOL
Ha! Or LOBBY?! 😆
I’m down that!! Lets lobby!! 🙂
In our spare time, right? 😉
Lobby, yes. think how many additional schools they would NOT have to burden taxpayers with building…fewer bond issues, lower school taxes. Less crowded classrooms….all good things. the best would be children at home being taught by their parent(s).
And bullies would all have to bully each other. Or their teachers. Hmm.
It’s a sad thing that some teachers in this country ARE being bullied by their students. It’s a growing problem. Teachers get blamed for all the woes in education. We don’t blame dentists when we get cavities, but we blame teachers when kids refuse to try to learn, can’t focus on their math because their parents divorced, etc. PARENTS need to reclaim responsibility for their children. Sadly, many won’t do that, let alone homeschool.
Sorry. I got on a soapbox. 😦
This whole post and most of the replies are a soapbox, this time ’round, Leah, and you are welcome to climb on up here with us! 😆
I have always known that some adults are called into the various public systems, as a mission, as a calling from God. I do not see the teacher’s roll, in that case, as furthering a wicked agenda, but as infiltrating, to do as much good as possible, to encourage the kids who are trying, to prod those who are not.
I never forget it was a teacher who stepped in front of a child in Jonesboro, and died taking a bullet.
From a bully.
We do tend to blame dentists, though, for mercury gas poisoning from our fillings. Wrongly. We should be blaming government lies for that, too.
I am so very amused! Yes – absolutely true! We are doing our part to manage the national deficit!! I wanted to like this post but for some reason the like button isn’t showing up so I will just have to settle for commenting…
Dear AWA,
Yes, I had to remove “like” buttons due to some horrific spam likers. Sorry. However, I am so glad you enjoyed this post, and WELCOME to Home’s Cool! 🙂 Many thanks for stopping by!
Yep, we do the best we can, which is more than I can say of some.
Thanks for your kind words, here, and I hope you visit again, soon!